TO BRETHREN IN MAINE by James White; John Nevins Andrews

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 10, 1867

TO BRETHREN IN MAINE.

By James White; John Nevins Andrews

One of the most important items in health reform is the use of good Graham flour. Wheat raised in this State does not make good Graham flour.

1. It is not as free from oats and barley as Western wheat. The hulls of oats should not be taken into the human stomach.

2. The skin or bran of the wheat grown in Maine is thick, tough, and hard, and as Graham flour is usually ground, the skin is left nearly, or quite, whole. This is very bad for diseased stomachs.

Some form an unfavorable opinion of Graham flour because in their first experience of its use they obtain a poor article of flour, and have no experience in cooking it. Failing in both these essentials, and not having cultivated a taste for plain, healthful food, they are disappointed in this branch, and are tempted to condemn the entire reform.

We earnestly recommend you to first obtain good Graham flour, then purchase the work entitled, "How to Live," for sale at the Review Office, which gives full directions for preparing and cooking food. With these you may prepare food, which, after cultivating a natural, healthful appetite, you will decide is the most palatable and healthful you ever enjoyed.

Bro. M. B. Cyphers, of Skowhegan, Me., keeps the best Graham flour, which he sells at a reasonable price. At present, it costs no more than poor flour from wheat grown in the State.

Bro. P. Z. Kinne, of Kirkville, N. Y., a practical miller, furnishes Bro. Cyphers with this flour. Bro. K. makes it from pure winter wheat. The kernel of this wheat is full and round, with a thin, tender skin, containing less bran than custom-wheat. And Bro. Kinne has his mill-stones so prepared as to cut the bran comparatively fine, and yet the entire product of the wheat is neither too fine nor too coarse.

Bro. Kinne and Cyphers are both men of unquestionable integrity. They engage in this matter for less profits than other branches of their business gives them. The deep interest they take in health reform leads them to do this. And as is usually the case with those men who are ready to sacrifice for the good of others, these brethren are both destitute of the means necessary to advance to carry on this business. It will therefore be necessary for those who wish to obtain this flour, to advance means as often as six times during the year, at regular periods, to the amount necessary to pay for the amount of flour they wish to consume during each period. Especially should those do this who wish the advantages of obtaining a barrel at a time. Pay your money to Bro. Cyphers in advance; this will enable him to send it with the order to Bro. Kinne, which will give him means and time to produce a quantity at the lowest figure. And if such order amounts to ten barrels, something will be saved in the transportation.

We believe this arrangement to be safe, and that by it you can secure a better article for the same amount of money than in any other way. We earnestly recommend this kind of flour to all as more healthful and sweeter to a pure taste than fine flour. We hope you will all enter into this arrangement. Try this branch of the health reform. JAMES WHITE, J. N. ANDREWS.